Look, I'm a Detroit native, so I know what it has been like for Lions fans the past, oh, 60 years or so. And the last thing I wanted to do was cause any more pain or humiliation. But over the past few years, I've noticed a unique pattern with this team's behavior that I've just been dying to share. Still, I didn't write anything after Dominic Raiola's run-in with the Wisconsin marching band, or, after Nate Burleson broke his left arm after becoming distracted by a pizza while driving or even when tight end Joseph Fauria started doing the Cabbage Patch Dance after touchdowns.

But this week, Detroit improved to 5-3 with an incredible last-second win against the Cowboys, and then I read the headline "Louis Delmas Gives Up Pet Alligator" and, honestly, I just couldn't wait any longer to test my theory.

So here it is:

During the past several years, the Detroit Lions have become so wonderfully weird it has gotten to the point that you can no longer tell the difference between the team's odd behavior and the plot of a Will Ferrell movie.

(I will, like Dean Gordon Pritchard in "Old School," now pause for a moment to allow that information to properly sink in.) To further prove my point, below I've laid out 17 scenarios. Trust me, there were more, many, many more.

See for yourself if you can pick which one is an actual byproduct of the twisted Motor City Kitties or something only Ron Burgundy or Chazz Michael Michaels (a veteran of Detroit's underground sewer skating scene) could dream up.

There's an answer key at the end in case you struggle. (And you will.)

As always, I'm counting on you to send along your own crazy connections to @FlemESPN (#FerrellLions).

Okay, you decide: Is it Will Ferrell or the Detroit Lions?

Scenario No. 1

Undisciplined children dressed in blue jackets desecrate moment of thanks with threats to scissor-kick defenseless old man.